Re: [boost] Will 1.45 incorporate active regression tickets?

Subject: Re: [boost] Will 1.45 incorporate active regression tickets?
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-31 23:11:35

On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Jim Bell wrote:
> Will 1.45 incorporate active regression tickets? I.e., report {30}
> <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/report/30>
> 
> Several of these could be incorporated without too much work. I think a
> scan of these would be worth the release managers' time.

While I'm not a release manager, I looked at a few of them; and I'm wondering if there's a disagreement here about what constitutes a "regression".

To me, that means that the code has "regressed", or gotten worse.
Something that worked in a previous release no longer works - that's a "regression"

Something that didn't work before is a "bug".
If a new test is added, and it fails on some platforms - that's a "bug".
Something that's being tested on a new OS/CPU/compiler and doesn't work - that's a "bug".

It's possible, however, that other people are using these terms to mean different things.

Anyone else want to chime in?

-- Marshall